Just a little
over an hour after Prime Minister Netanyahu made his speech in the UN and
blasted the world for their silence in light of the promise of Iran’s rulers to
destroy Israel my phone rang. It was almost ten pm, rather late for us to
receive phone calls. I heard my son’s voice and felt apprehension.
“Is everything okay?”
“No!” he
stated unequivocally.
In my mind I
was already imagining a sick child but, no, that wasn’t the problem.
“There was a
terror attack…”
“A terror
attack?” I didn’t want to continue this call but knew I must.
“Between Itamar and Elon Moreh,” his voice was
flat. “A young couple was murdered.”
“Baruch
Dayan HaEmet…Do you know who?”
“No, they’re
from Nerya…” He mumbled something about being there, but I didn’t quite
understand why. He explained as part of the first respond team of Itamar he was
called out. He saw things none of us should ever see.
“I’m so
sorry,” I told my son but the words seemed empty. All I wanted to do was put
my arms around him. Instead I hung up the phone and reviewed those I know who
live in Nerya. My son knows them also so I finally fell asleep feeling assured
the ones I care about personally were safe physically. How could they be emotionally well, though, knowing
that their neighbors had been murdered while on a family outing with their children?
What would happen to the new orphans?
It was only
in the morning that I learned the names of the newest victims of Arab terror;
Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin, hy’d.
I still don’t know the answers to my other
questions.
courtesy of Israel National News |
With a heart
full of grief I opened my computer to CNN and Fox News. There was no mention of
the Henkins. Of course, they were only two people and ten had been murdered on
a college campus in America the day before. However, I remember when a baby was
murdered in an arson fire in the Arab village of Duma. Before anyone had even been
apprehended for the crime it was already decided by almost every journalist that Jewish
extremists had lit the fire.
Today, two
months later, no one has been charged with the crime. Yet, is there
anyone in the world who hasn’t heard of the murder of the Duma family? Why is
the murder of Arabs so much more newsworthy than that of Jews? Why is Jewish
blood so cheap?
As I wrote
in Ignorance Kills (July 10th):
Seventy years ago the
majority of European Jewry was obliterated from the face of the earth. When the
concentration camps were liberated the main reactions were we didn’t know. Maybe
they did or maybe they didn’t. The Holocaust was eons before computers,
internet, i-phones, and skype. Now there’s no excuse for not knowing. And
those who want to support Israel are obligated to plug into Israeli news
sources. They are responsible for sharing that news with the world whether it’s
via facebook, what’s app, or just plain conversation. They need to tell
the heartwarming stories of Israeli doctors saving Arab children’s lives. They
must also tell the heartbreaking stories of terrorists taking Israeli
children’s lives.
Israel exists for the
protection of every Jew. Every Jew needs to protect Israel. Sign up for a
reliable Israeli news source today. Ignorance kills and silence murders.
1 comment:
You are so right!Thank you for saying what everybody thinks.Love you!
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